Word: centralization
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...With [the Pudding's] central location, a show is much more likely to attract [those] people in the Square for the afternoon, she said...
...light of the latest local catastrophe, the mismanagement of the Central Artery Tunnel project (a.k.a. "The Big Dig"), it's nice to see that private citizens are taking it upon themselves to help serve the community at large. In this era of expanding government programs to levels that would make Thomas Jefferson cry, some prominent locals are doing great things without government involvement. Former 8th district congressman Joe Kennedy founded a non-profit organization called "Citizen's Energy." The non-profit corporation uses entrepreneurial revenue to provide heating and oil to low-income families at up to 40 percent below...
...schools. Kishlansky's frustration with the system is not unfounded. In an attempt to figure out how and where all this money is spent, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Committee on Resources, of which Baird is a member, presented a report last week that suggested the central administration incorporate more Faculty input into University decision-making. Specifically, the committee recommended that President Neil L. Rudenstine create a formal mechanism, such as a committee of faculty members from FAS and other schools, to advise central administration spending. The proposal is more than reasonable, and Rudenstine should...
...committee on resources has presented a powerful indictment of the central administration's excessively complicated and overly bureaucratic financial system. Even though FAS is the largest of the University's schools, many Faculty members know little more about University spending than the size of the endowment. Project ADAPT, a $112 million project that was supposed to make the system more transparent by centralizing each school's financial information, has become a headache for both faculty and administrators. Ironically, many of its major design flaws arose because of a lack of communication between developers in the center and its primary users...
...which break across the dialogue, descriptions of a kidnapping, images of infanticide. But the shock value of these sounds and words and images comes not from the violence they represent but from the way that violence is kept at the periphery of the play. Indeed, the horror of the central murders in The Ohio State Murders is so subtly presented it could almost be forgotten. But the horror of the world surrounding those murders is so pervasive that it cannot help but disturb...